An active non-LTR retrotransposon with tandem structure in the compact genome of pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1686-1695

  Bouneau, Laurence ^a   Fischer, Cécile ^a   Ozouf Costaz, Catherine ^b   Froschauer, Alexander ^c   Jaillon, Olivier ^a   Coutanceau, Jean Pierre ^b   Körting, Cornelia ^c   Weissenbach, Jean ^a   Bernot, Alain ^a   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; FISH GENETICS; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; NEMATODA; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0038148190     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.726003     Document Type: Review

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